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vaporizer

vaporizer noun: such a device to facilitate vaping.

vaporizer: such a device to facilitate vaping
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Noun

vaporizer (plural vaporizers)

  1. Such a device to facilitate vaping.
    • Vaporizers are used in electronic cigarettes to simulate smoke.
    Synonyms:
    vape
  2. A medical device for administering medicine via inhalation. The produced vapor condensates into fine aerosols, forming a mist inside the device, to be inhaled by the patient for delivery of the medicine into the lungs.
  3. (historical except museologically) A device that heated viscous liquid motor fuel, especially tractor vaporising oil, to enable an engine to run on it.
    • Their Fordson was equipped with a vaporizer.

Synonyms of vaporizer

Forms of vaporizer

pluralvaporizers
alternative UKvaporiser
alternative UKvapouriser
alternative British English Oxfordvapourizer

Plural of vaporizer: vaporizers

Origin of vaporizer

From vaporiz(e) + -er.

Questions about vaporizer

What does vaporizer mean?
Vaporizer means such a device to facilitate vaping.
What part of speech is vaporizer?
Vaporizer is a noun.
What is the plural of vaporizer?
The plural of vaporizer is vaporizers.

Words near vaporizer in the dictionary

  1. vaporizable
  2. vaporization
  3. vaporizations
  4. vaporize
  5. vaporized
  6. vaporizer
  7. vaporizers
  8. vaporizes
  9. vaporizing
  10. vaporless
  11. vaporlike

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